How to Make a CD Disco Ball

Make your own disco ball using old CDs. This eHow was contributed by one groovy, anonymous person.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Large Styrofoam Balls With Hanger
• Colored Light Bulbs
• Flood Lighting
• Glue Guns
• Hot Glue Sticks
• Cutting Boards
• Scissors
• Scissors
• X-Acto Knives
• Straightedges Ruler
• thin, strong ropes

1. 

   Cut up old CDs into 1/2-inch or 1-centimeter squares.

2. 

   Glue them to the outside of some kind of ball or spherical object.

3. Put a string through the spherical object and hang it from the rafters.

4. Shine lights (ideally multicolored) onto the ball.

5. 

   Bingo! Disco ball.

Tips & Warnings

• Recycle CDs that Internet access companies send you in the mail.
• Teachers and nonprofit organizations can ask U.S. Postal Service carrier stations for the undeliverable CDs and other craft items that are normally thrown away. Address a letter to the U.S.P.S. station manager, and make arrangements to pick these items up regularly.

[Groundhog]

on 6/15/2007 Looks like a lot of work.

on 11/22/2005 Be extremely careful breaking up the CDs.I recommend some gloves and a pair of safety glasses. My friend got a few stitches from trying to break up CDs.

on 11/22/2005 Watch out for your eyes. Pieces of plastic can fly up, and you don't want them to hit you. I did an art project last year using broken CDs, but I used an modelling knife and snapped it on the edge of the table. It didn't work too well.

on 11/22/2005 You can also use any silver colored confetti. I used confetti shaped like bells. They were approximately 1 square centimeter each. I placed them next to each other. It looks great!

on 11/22/2005 I grew pear-shaped gourds, dried them, painted them white, covered them with tiny cut pieces of old CDs and used them for beautiful Christmas tree ornaments.